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hsbauauvhabzb 2 days ago

Why stop there when you can just not have a phone at all?

neilv 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I did try phoneless for a few years, except for a dumbphone that I kept at home for the rare call or SMS 2FA.

The biggest factor that forced upgrading was poor call quality on the dumbphones I tried. (And this was really forced by bombing a particular important phone call because I couldn't be understood well.)

Then, once I found a smartphone that I kinda liked (GrapheneOS, after Apple sold out on surveillance), there were reasons to start carrying it. Rather than simply keeping it in a drawer at home.

But fortunately not sufficient reason so far to go full Google Play.

Email, Web, maps, authenticator, camera, and calls are all things I sometimes could use when out.

Though I normally don't have to have any of those, but I've been experimenting with it for a year or so, and seeing whether it's worthwhile.

tranq_cassowary a day ago | parent | prev [-]

If you are going to use a desktop instead, you are hurting your security significantly. Traditional desktop OSes like Window, MacOS and Linux desktop lack a sane security model with a mandatory app sandbox with fine-grained permissions. They also heavily use memory-unsafe code compared to modern OSes like Android OSes and iOS and lack modern exploit mitigations. Only daily drivable productions grade desktop OS with security in its foundations is ChromeOS.

hsbauauvhabzb 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I never said anything about desktops? You don’t have to use those either, though.